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Lisa Alletson's prize-winning, debut poetry chapbook, Good Mother Lizard (Headlight Review) was published in September 2022 and is available at https://www.theheadlightreview.com/ch...

Her poetry and fiction/non-fiction have been published in literary journals including Crab Creek Review, New Ohio Review, Typehouse Literary, Bear Review, Lumiere Review, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres, as well as The Globe and Mail. She studied poetry with Carl Phillips in the 2022 Kenyon Review Summer Workshop. Lisa writes on Twitter at @LotusTongue.
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	Good Mother Lizard 4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight With Words: Late Night Conversations in Poetry by Ty Gardner (Goodreads Author), Lisa Alletson (Goodreads Author), Joe Barca 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grace Fell First it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Words Volume 4 by Alanna Rusnak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michelle McLaughlin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Haley Down (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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